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1537410

registered interest
date	31/10/2022
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government is taking to improve job opportunities for young people with employment access needs.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	74621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2022 answer text <p>Jobcentre Plus partnership and employer adviser teams work closely with national and local employers to help address their labour market needs by recruiting suitable claimants.</p><p> </p><p>To promote opportunities for young people with access needs, Jobcentre Plus offers additional support to employers who are committed to helping these young people succeed in the labour market. Through the Disability Confident scheme, for example, DWP is providing advice and support to help employers feel more confident about employing disabled people. This in turn helps to promote the skills, talents and abilities of people with disabilities and health conditions.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the DWP Youth Offer, Youth Employability Coaches work alongside Disability Employment Advisers to support claimants who have a disability or health condition to enter and stay in employment. Some Youth Hubs also offer mental health support and services, alongside skills, training, and employment provision.</p><p> </p><p>There are a range of initiatives businesses can get involved in to give opportunities and experience to young people, including apprenticeships, traineeships, mentoring circles, and work experience. In addition, Access to Work and the Access to Work Mental Health Support Service provide personalised support to enable disabled people and those with a health condition to move into or keep employment.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 03/11/2022 15:41:43 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1180552

registered interest
date	25/02/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Marriage Guidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much money has been spent under section 22 of the Family Law Act 1996 on (a) the provision of marriage support services, (b) research into the causes of marital breakdown and (c) research into ways of preventing marital breakdown in each financial year since the Act came into force.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	20446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>As policy responsibility for relationship issues has moved between departments several times since 1996, the information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The policy responsibility for relationship issues currently sits with DWP. DWP does not make grants under section 22 of the Family Law Act (1996), however we have funded a range of work to help couples (including those who are married) to improve the quality of their relationships.</p><p> </p><p>Since responsibility for this area moved to DWP, we have spent the following in each financial year:</p><p> </p><p>2014/15 - £7.5m</p><p>2015/16 - £11.2m</p><p>2016/17 - £6.3m</p><p>2017/18 - £5.24m</p><p>2018/19 - £15.85m</p><p>2019/20 current forecast - £10.2m</p><p> </p><p>Currently, these services are focused on the specific issue of parental conflict, and are delivered through our Reducing Parental Conflict programme.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 02/03/2020 17:45:41 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1173507

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Disability: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans she has to increase the financial support parents receive for raising children with disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	8219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>Child Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is a benefit for children under the age of 16 who, due to a disability or health condition, have mobility issues and/or require substantially more care, attention and supervision than children their age normally would. Parents of disabled children may be also able to claim Carer’s Allowance.</p><p>The government is committed to protecting and supporting the most vulnerable in society. It is for that reason the government has continued to uprate disability and carer benefits by inflation, including the disability elements of tax credits.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 30/01/2020 11:16:22 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1172215

registered interest
date	21/01/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to increase employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	6070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reducing the disability employment gap and seeing a million more disabled people in work by 2027.</p><p> </p><p>We help disabled people return to and stay in work through programmes including the Work and Health Programme, the new Intensive Personalised Employment Support Programme, Access to Work and Disability Confident.</p><p> </p><p>There were 4.2 million working age disabled people in employment in the UK in Q3 2019. This was an increase of 354,000 since last year (Q3 2018), and an overall increase of 1.3 million since Q3 2013, the earliest comparable figure<em>.</em></p><p> </p><p>We will publish a National Strategy for Disabled People before the end of 2020. This will look at ways to improve the benefits system, opportunities and access for disabled people in terms of housing, education, transport and jobs</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 27/01/2020 16:57:09 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1136406

registered interest
date	02/07/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Marriage Guidance: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding the Government has allocated under section 22 of the Family Law Act 1996 to (a) the provision of marriage support services and (b) research into (i) the causes of and (ii) preventing marital breakdown in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	272228
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>Responsibility for delivering relationship support services moved to the Department for Work and Pensions in 2013. Although DWP does not make grants under s22 of the Family Law Act (1996), we have funded a range of services to support families to improve the quality of their relationships – including those who are married.</p><p>DWP is currently delivering the Reducing Parental Conflict programme, which is backed by up to £39m and aims to encourage local authorities and their partners across England to integrate services which address parental conflict into local provision for families. Around a third of this budget is being used to test eight face-to-face interventions, which evidence shows have the potential to be effective at reducing parental conflict.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 08/07/2019 12:47:27 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1087269

registered interest
date	12/03/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Down's Syndrome
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what research her Department has conducted on life for people with Down's Syndrome in the 21st century.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	231432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>This department undertakes research into people’s experience of support into work schemes, including the experiences of disabled people. The Department has not conducted or commissioned research on life experiences for people with Down’s Syndrome in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century.</p><p> </p><p>Equal rights for disabled people, including people with Down’s Syndrome, are provided for under the reasonable adjustments provisions in the Equality Act and the Public Sector Equality duty. Each Government Department and public authority is under a duty to make adequate provision for disabled people including people with Down’s Syndrome.</p><p> </p><p>Disability in the UK is mainstreamed. This means that every department is ultimately responsible for considering disability in the development and implementation of its policies and services.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 19/03/2019 14:57:51 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

933872

registered interest
date	02/07/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Marriage Guidance: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether new voluntary sector organisations are eligible to access the £39 million of funding provided by her Department for relationship support services in local communities.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	159575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2018 answer text <p>The Reducing Parental Conflict Programme is funded by up to £39m, and will encourage councils across England to integrate evidence-based services and approaches to addressing parental conflict that work for their local families.</p><p>Just over a quarter of the programme budget will be used to build the evidence base for which interventions work to reduce parental conflict, and provide access to face-to-face support to reduce parental conflict in 30 local authorities across England. The procurement process for the delivery of the face-to-face interventions will be open to any interested party as an open competition.</p><p>To help potential suppliers to prepare for these opportunities, we recently published a Prior Information Notice which outlined the timescales for the procurement. This notice advised suppliers that we will be launching an opportunity in July for expert organisations to bid to deliver the face-to-face interventions which DWP will be funding, with these contracts in place by January 2019. Full details of this process will be available when the Invitation to Tender is published. Organisations interested in bidding for the face-to-face contracts will be able to access the procurement opportunities on Contracts Finder, and can register their interest on Bravo.</p><p>In addition to the procurement of face-to-face services, we have also announced £6m of joint funding with the Department of Health and Social Care, aimed at improving the outcomes of children of alcohol-dependent parents, and we expect that there will be opportunities for voluntary sector organisations to participate in this work.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/07/2018 14:44:57 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

806015

registered interest
date	13/12/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Department for Work and Pensions: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, to which legislation his Department has applied the Family Test, published in August 2014.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	119225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The government is committed to supporting families. To achieve this, in 2014 we introduced the Family Test, which aims to ensure that impacts on family relationships and functioning are recognised early on during the process of policy development and help inform the policy decisions made by Minsters. The Family Test was not designed to be a ‘tick-box’ exercise, and as such there is no requirement for departments to publish the results of assessments made under the Family Test.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/12/2017 12:54:32 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

805455

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Department for Work and Pensions: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November 2017 to Question HL3576, what steps his Department is taking to strengthen families.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	119126
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families announced our commitment to tackle the damaging levels of parental conflict in workless families. This in response to recent evidence which shows that children exposed to frequent, intense and poorly resolved conflict can suffer a decline in their mental health and experience poorer long term outcomes. Our new Reducing Parental Conflict Programme will provide workless families in a number of local areas across England with face-to-face, evidence based interventions to reduce parental conflict. This provision will be available to workless parents, whether they are together or separated, as when it comes to the critical issue of improving children’s outcomes, the evidence shows that the quality of relationships within a family are more important than family structure. Alongside these face-to-face interventions, we will be working closely with local authorities to raise awareness of the negative impacts of parental conflict on children and families, and to help them embed proven parental conflict support into existing services for families.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/12/2017 12:40:00 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

785061

registered interest
date	06/11/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Unemployment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to implement the recommendations of his Department's report on Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families, published in April 2017.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	111633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families set out a framework for improving outcomes for disadvantaged children, now and in the future. The Department for Work and Pensions continues to work with key stakeholders and with other Departments to take forward the four policies set out in the document. Further announcements will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 15/11/2017 17:24:23 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce